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paleotn

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58. Who? I've heard the name....

Reply to obamanut2012 (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 21, 2023, 08:48 PM

Nov 2023

but couldn't tell you one freaking song she ever sang. Sorry, but pop is just that. Pop. She ain't no Mick Jager...yet. Of course, I remember a time when Mick was considered "pop".

Seriously, though. Many of us haven't kept track of such things in 40 freaking years. I assume Biden is one of us. So what?! That silly, pop culture BS.

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